Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):

Have checkboxin installer to enable $wgDBssl

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):

As cloud managed dbs become more popular, its more likely that your DB is somewhere else in the network. Modern users are also more sensitive to transport security requirements

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):

Seems like the sort of thing that is just expected in 2023.

There was also some discussion among end users at https://github.com/gctools-outilsgc/gcpedia/issues/162